When Jenn Wohletz moved from the Midwest to New Mexico, she discovered Mexican food — make that New Mexican food — at Little Anita’s, and she got hooked on both red and green chile. During a stint in Utah, she almost had to go cold turkey — but here in…
Backcountry Provisions, the Steamboat Springs-based mini-chain that added a LoDo store in 2010, has changed its name to Backcountry Delicatessen. “The brand refresh represents more than a name change; it’s a progression of our business which positively represents our commitment to our customers and desire to expand to other locations,”…
Prince Harry might have stopped by The Market on Monday, but the real royalty was right down the street, at Rioja. Just a week before, Jennifer Jasinski, the chef who opened that Larimer Square restaurant with business partner Beth Gruitch almost a decade ago, was named Best Chef Southwest at…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Update: We have a winner of our Trillium Norway dinner! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many pounds of gravlax, on average, chef Ryan Leinonen serves in a month at Trillium. Congrats to sixfeetofsnow, who guessed fifteen pounds of gravlax. The actual number is thirty, a…
I had one of my first real New Mexican meals in New Mexico, at the Little Anita’s location in Albuquerque…and I hated it. I was astounded that people would dump alternating layers of boiling-hot green pepper sauce and equally steaming, nose-running-hot red pepper sauce on everything and suck this stuff…
Before I drank beer and long before I drank wine, I was drinking classic Old-Fashioned cocktails, probably because that’s what my parents drank nearly every night while I still lived at home. And now, more than twenty years later, I still love the drink. And last night, at the bar…
We stopped by Ace recently to take a look at some of the new dishes on the restaurant’s revamped menu. Continuing his foray into Asian cuisine, executive chef Brandon Biederman has added Vietnamese noodles, a dry curry and eggless bao buns to the mix — lighter fare that won’t leave…
Last week several Denver chefs traveled to Kansas to visit the Callicrate Ranch, a cattle ranch and slaughterhouse owned by fiercely opinionated, radically passionate Mike Callicrate, to witness the slaughter of a steer. Lori Midson went along, and offered up her account of the trip last Friday. It was eye-opening…
I’m officially a few pounds heavier today — and it’s not because of my Mother’s Day stomach crush at Paxia (which was excellent, by the way). No, today’s increase in poundage has everything to do with chocolate, namely the Colorado Chocolate Festival, which took place over the weekend at the…
Back in December, we broke the news that Spuntino, chef John Broening and pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom’s neighborhood restaurant in Highland — a restaurant that turns out everything from unassailable gelato to equally unparalleled porchetta — would temporarily shutter sometime this February to undergo a significant renovation. Timing, of course,…
Cafe Society posted five Guess Where We’re Eating contests last week, ranging from a carne asada plate from the new (and festive) Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, to some lovely spot prawns from Super Star Asian, to bánh mì from a brewpub…
The latest chapter in the First Avenue Hotel saga — the closing of both El Diablo and Sketch at the end of service on May 2, right before the city’s latest notice to vacate was issued for May 3 — got some punctuation on Friday, when the building’s windows were…
Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Kansas — specifically St. Francis, Kansas, a small, sleepy town just a few miles east of the Kansas/Colorado border, population a mere 1,200. Cattle far, far outweigh humans in St. Francis — there are thousands and thousands of them –…
Looks like El Diablo is really gone for good. The restaurant and its sibling, Sketch, held a final bash on May 2, then closed after last call — right before the city’s most recent notice to vacate the First Avenue Hotel was set to take effect on May 3. Earlier…
Don’t let the name mislead you: The Chocolate Nemesis may soon be your new best friend. The “oldie but goody” dessert that won fans at The Kitchen in Boulder has now been imported to The Kitchen Denver, and is winning hearts (and stomachs) across town. The flourless chocolate cake, accompanied…
If you spend any time in the comments section of our blogs, you might have already noticed that some commenters show up with the titles “Editor” or “Community Manager” next to their usernames. Well, there’s now a new badge on the block, and it’s called the “Vocalizer.” Continue reading for…
No, this bánh mì isn’t from a Vietnamese restaurant. In fact, it comes from a restaurant where you’d likely never expect to see it on the menu. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into…
Any food-nerd knows that it’s almost impossible to keep up with every new culinary gadget or cool DIY kit — but it’s almost as tough to resist them. You contemplate giving up imported cheese or cartons of duck fat for a month just so you can buy some food-tastic item…
Federal Bar & Grill is now open in the former home of Micky Manor, right across a parking lot — the bar’s own parking lot! — from Jack-n-Grill. There’s not much grill yet to the bar, which occupies a circa 1904 fire station, but there are enough craft beers to…
For almost eighty years, the Micky Manor — and that’s Micky, without an “e” — was a landmark on Federal Boulevard, its trademark-respecting neon Mickey and Minnie signs a constant. But in the fall of 2011, the mouse finally left the house. The circa 1904 firehouse at 2544 Federal Boulevard…
It’s easy to eat seasonally when the fields are full of tomatoes and the trees are heavy with peaches, as I write in this week’s review of Potager. But abundance, whether in August or May, brings its own challenges. This counter-intuitive lesson is one I learned first-hand when I was…
